Hopkins institutions are heavily involved in the development of two new Baltimore City charter schools, the Baltimore Civitas School and the Reach! School
The Baltimore Civitas School will be run by the University's Center for Social Organization of Schools and will focus on public-service education.
Set to be located in Northwest Baltimore, the Civitas School will open to grades 6-9 and eventually serve students up to grade 12. Students there will learn the traditional subjects as well as work on independent projects designed to serve the community.
The Reach! School will also be a middle and high school but will focus on preparing students for careers in health and construction. Reach! (which stands for Research Educational Achievement: Construction and Health Partnership) will be operated by the nonprofit program Service Works in conjunction with Hopkins Hospital and Associate Builders and Contractors of Maryland.
Hospital personnel will create the health part of the school's curriculum and offer students such opportunities as job shadowing and field trips.
The Civitas and Reach! schools are part of Baltimore City Public Schools' CEO Andrea Alonso's "transformation schools" initiative, which aims to build two dozen innovative schools within the next four years.
